From the moment of its establishment the Catholic Church has been perceived as “a sign that will be contradicted” In practice, this contradiction is inherent in philosophers’ views. They negated particular tenets of faith, ...

A number of customs and beliefs are connected with the problems of death and funeral rituals. So-called “chanters”, who were the leaders of the ritual and the prayers, played a special role in the passage ritual in the ...

The paper discusses the role of ritual in religious culture. Religion expresses and manifests itself through ritual behaviour which constitutes a means by which values and norms are conveyed, social order is established ...

In recognizing revelation, the author takes into consideration the relative-historical role of the Revelator, that is the Tradition of the Church, its life, salvational influence on man’s transformation, his sanctification, ...

Life is the greatest value in the tradional African culture. The care for life permeates all the activities of the African peoples and everything is subjected to it. Disease, infertility, drought and bad death are misfortunes ...